World record sandwich? Iranians eat the evidence

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The organisers of a Tehran food festival were licking their wounds today after spending two days building the world’s longest sandwich - only to see it devoured by the crowd before anyone had a chance to measure it.

More than 1,000 volunteers worked from early this morning to make the 1,500-metre sandwich, using a whole tonne of ostrich meat and hundreds of loaves.

The meat was supplied by local ostrich farmers eager to promote their produce as a tasty and healthy alternative to traditional Iranian offerings. The festival had also hoped to book a place in the Guinness Book of World